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First published success of the new Rapid Access Program [read more]

12.03.2015 Small-angle neutron scattering enabled researchers to look inside intact leaves to learn how their structure and functions change when submitted to environmental changes. Plants’ leaves capture the sunlight and convert it into energy used to produce nutrients for their activities. This… [read more]

27.02.2015 Ibuprofen is an active substance often used in the treatment of pain, fever and inflammation. However, if taken over a long period of time, certain risks present themselves, such as dangerous gastric bleeding. How this rare side effect develops on a molecular level has not yet been… [read more]

23.02.2015 Forschungszentrum Jülich, together with its project partners in science and industry from France, Norway and Sweden, is to receive around four million Euros from Horizon 2020, the framework programme of the European Union for Research and Innovation, for the development of a more… [read more]

09.02.2015 Worldwide, battery research is one of the most intensively studied research fields, because – for various reasons – the need for energy storage devices is growing rapidly. Also at the MLZ, several research groups work in this field and try to gain a better understanding of how batteries… [read more]

For the development of a new fuel with lower enrichment, Uranium-molybdenum (UMo) embedded in an aluminum matrix is a promising candidate. However the severe diffusion reaction between the two materials Al and UMo during irradiation degenerates the fuel performance and therefore has to be… [read more]

The MaMaSELF registration for the years 2015-2017 runs until 31 January (non-European), 27 February (European students) and 30 April 2015 (without scholarship). [read more]

Measurements at the three axes spectrometer PUMA have now been published in the renowned journal Nature Communications. [read more]

Measurements using positrons could help to develop better coatings for drugs. [read more]

12.12.2014 Dr. Matthias Rossbach and his team of the Institute of Energy and Climate Research, IEK-6, Nuclear Waste Management and Reactor Safety of the Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH designed and constructed a new instrument for prompt and delayed fission neutron induced reaction Gamma… [read more]